Hey all, I asked my marketing professor for feedback on our current survey. You can see it in the forwarded email below (shared with his permission).
The context of my question was very gender-oriented and so he answered accordingly. He also has ideas about improving the formulation of our questions which I plan to pursue with him but won't be able to get into before June. What do you all think of splitting the survey up and taking one diversity topic at a time? It might also allow us to handle diversity topics more delicately that aren't solely US-oriented... (contributors living in Western Europe with Arabic or Turkish origins for example). Best Regards, Myrle ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bruno, Hernan <X> Date: Fri, May 3, 2019 at 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey To: Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> Hello Myrle, I wrote that comment very quickly, here is a slightly edited version that you can share and that would avoid misunderstandings in this sensitive topic. You can share this with my name. >From the survey feedback, I see there is a strong interest in “diversity” in general, not just gender diversity. However, I think that a survey of this nature needs focus. Not because one kind of diversity is more important than other, but because I have a strong intuition that respondents would answer differently if asked about gender diversity vs. diversity in general. While I believe there are commonalities in the discrimination and harassment that non-men endure and those of non-white individuals, there are also differences, both in the target respondent, contexts, etc. One project cannot uncover all the mysteries of discrimination and fix everything. Making a survey about gender imbalance will teach you more than making a survey about all the diversity gaps, because the respondent would be able to focus, understand the context better, and provide more information. My suggestion is that the project should be about gender diversity, and explain to the community that other imbalances are important and will be dealt with separately. --- Prof. Dr. Hernan A. Bruno | University of Cologne *From: *Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> *Date: *Friday, 3. May 2019 at 10:21 *To: *"Bruno, Hernan" <X> *Subject: *Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey.
